Fourteen pioneering initiatives have been launched to transforming the way health and care is being delivered to patients by bringing services closer together. The original total place pilot project in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset found that it was possible to save £12m by refocusing resources from acute care for older people to supporting them to live at home and thereby reducing hospital admissions by some 15 per cent. The pioneering project reported in 2010.

The pilots will showcase innovative ways of creating change in the health service, which the Government and national partners want to see spread across the country. The pilots were selected by a panel of experts, including international experts drawing together global expertise and experience of how good joined up care works in practice.

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